LETTER: Speaking out on gun issues is youth's right

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Mar 23, 2018 at 3:01 AM

As a retired adult I am tired of people complaining about our youth protesting about these gun issues.

For sure this country has gone too long without people getting together to help make a change. It's their right, and it's their future. Their adults have failed them, and they want a change for safer schools, and better gun control. What is wrong with that? After raising my own children I do remember them teaching me a thing or two about politics and the real truth about our history.

Nobody wants to take your guns, but we need to keep the government out of the N.R.A. It's bad enough that Congress and our leaders are getting paid big time by the N.R.A so their business will grow. Our youth must wonder why us adults don't get together and march about that. Our youth don't want to take away the 2nd Amendment, just make changes needed as this country changes. We don't shoot with muskets anymore that would take five minutes to reload.

I do remember as a child in New Bedford people marching to City Hall to protest property tax increases. They wanted to know why, and together they got answers. As we know now, nobody unites anymore to make a change. So now our taxes just go up every single year. Years ago as a teenager, I remember protesting the Vietnam War. We made the noise needed to bring its reason out front.

I sure hope our youth stick together as a whole to get this change made. It's their future, and soon they will vote. Don't get walked on like we did. It's your right, and your freedom. "Right on" my children, "right on."

Allan J. Duarte

New Bedford

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